#alg liveblogs

i've been crying over agatha and charlotte all season but when charlotte says we have such fun together and they're holding hands and holding back tears, that's when i'm sobbing for entirely personal reasons

the end of this season left me with so many images stuck in my head in a nice way. the water overflowing from the bathtub. the overhead shot of all the dancers. sophie being walked down the aisle. it was just beautiful.

eloise, who has raged against the marriage market machine for years, watching her marriage-obsessed little sister discard all her treasures and declare she is now going to be like eloise: oh no i have perhaps gone too far

benedict yelling at his mom giving me the exact conflict i longed for this season: that's right toss your bleeding heart in her face alongside her parenting ideals and demand that violet justify ignoring both in the name of propriety...three years of happy children and all's well marriages leading right into this forbidden love match with all the inevitability of a slow motion train crash

well i will say that their heartbreak is the most believable i've seen from both sides of a bridgerton love story so far, and that's not an insult to the others who came before. benedict and sophie are just out here making it hurt to watch them hurt, and i think it's because benedict's always been a messy open book with his feelings on the table for the world to see so he breaks in front of her even as she's the one doing the breaking. but we know all of sophie's reasons for trying to stay safe and protected so it's just as wrenching to know she's holding it in, until she stops trying and then we're witnessing her devastation and it is just. a lot.

violet's eyes somehow getting even more enormous at his honesty and the little way she steps back like him moving toward her always knocks her off balance...ma'am i could watch your second epic love story unfold all day

can't believe there were reviews of this bridgerton season complaining that it's bad because it interrupts an otherwise good love story with way too many sideplots like are they not paying attention every story on this show IS a love story and i couldn't be more thrilled with how they're handling them. the fact that they let queen charlotte and agatha have that entire exchange with no words at all? chef's kiss. better than i expected. no notes. this is a show about love and this is a season about love and i take my love in every form as long as it's delivered with joy and on bridgerton even the painful kinds are so i am satisfied thanks

god i just love benedict so freaking much. he needs sophie to understand and accept his history with men if he's going to commit to her, and he can stand there with ten toes down going against not just his mother who he knows loves him and means well but also his forever noble older brother who chose the proper life he was supposed to, and benedict can listen to everyone tell him over and over again why he doesn't belong with sophie and why they can never have the life he believes they deserve...and it doesn't budge him an inch from knowing he's right and they're wrong, because he's not trying to convince anyone that they've found some loophole that will change the rules of society. he just believes society is wrong and made up and HE'S RIGHT AND HE SHOULD SAY IT. he may not be able to change things for them through sheer force of his heart, but damn if he isn't willing to try.